Serious (non-haiku) question as a followup: If Venture chooses to make a thread personal by saying things like:

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"I thought it was interesting""I have to do this, otherwise people don't understand.""Oh, and can you tell me what Tim Cook said that "spawned" this thread?"

Is responding to them a personal attack?

Venture may think comparing q-to-q is "interesting" or that he's the only poster wise enough to make us "understand", but he's been unable to provide any support for his opinion in this thread. Does disagreeing with an opinion make it personal?

(The Tim Cook reference is straight up trolling by dragging up his last opinion thread.)

No, it's really not. It is, however, cause for concern for Apple's original competitors since they see Apple making even more profits but not from those things that they once competed over. As I will continue to say, those was don't get the iPad will be left behind.

You ask a reasonable question, yet it is not directly connected to the title of the thread, which is talking about unit sales, not the first or second derivative of unit sales.

"Cresting" to me might imply that the first derivative had turned negative on an annual timescale.

"Has Crested" - past tense - stated in May of 2012 - I believe will be disproven. But it won't be proven or disproven with internet posts, it can only be addressed with data yet to arrive. My opinion or prediction is that Venture is wrong here.

Great pionts. I would content that "cresting" means the first derivative is zero. Has crested means negative.